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'Memories of Past Years' CHAPTER 3

We went past Cape Town and Port Elizabeth and dropped anchor outside the Port of Durban where we stayed all...

British Naval Top Secret Operation - Dutch Landings and the Re-occupation of Bali and Lombok - Chapter 1

British Naval Top Secret Operation - Dutch Landings and the Re-occupation of Bali and Lombok - Chapter 1....

Memorable Days

Time 21.00pm made our rendezvous just off the Isle of Wight with lots of squadrons of landing craft. By...

My time in the Royal Navy.

The panic calmed when a Petty Officer Torpedo man reported that he had removed the pistol from the depth...

With the WRNS on HMS Medina and HMS Osborne

Used by the main Fleet Air Arm station at Lee-on-Solent for training, the ship's company consisted of...

Memories of a C.W. Candidate Part Two - North Atlantic Convoy P.Q.17 and Convoy Operation Pedestory 10-13th August 1942 to supply Malta

Memories of a C.W. Candidate Part Two 鈥� North Atlantic Convoy P.Q.17 and Convoy Operation Pedestal...

Braving the Atlantic

I boarded along with some British soldiers' families from the Bermuda garrison, and bade Bermuda a...

The sinking of the S.S.Amsterdam [Hospital ship]1944.

At 14years and nine months I went to Gravesend Sea school,in the hope of joining the Merchant Navy I was a...

Memoirs of Ron Mead - Life During WW2

German aircraft made several attacks straffing the beach with gunfire and bombs... After sailing half way...

AXIS PUSH FROM OCCUPIED GREECE AND THE NORTHERN AEGEAN

HMS Hurworth and HHMS Adrias were ordered for this diversion and supply and were suitably loaded with gear...

A-Bomb Patrol

Two British destroyers, HMS Albrighton and HMS Goathland successfully attacked a 17 ship German convoy last...

H.M.S Relentless (chapter 3) The change over to peace time routine 1945

I wrote an airmail letter home dated September 26th 1945 describing Adu Atoll.On the return from Singapore...

Living in Donegal, Working in Derry

Instead I got a job with the Royal Navy in Derry harbour, and operated transport of Ammo to destroyers in...

Memories of World War Two - Voyage from St Vincent in the Cape Verde Islands to the UK

When the war began I was living with my parents on St. Vincent, in the Cape Verde Islands, where my father...

Sinking of the Rawalpindi

The two German ships which sank the Rawalpindi were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau meeting the Rawalpindi...

Misplaced account

The two German ships which sank the Rawalpindi were the Scharnhorst and Gneisenau meeting the Rawalpindi...

Scrambling madly to get hammocks and 鈥渨ater wings鈥� Part 2

The showers were of sea water, and a hot sea water shower seemed to leave one 鈥渟ticky鈥� compared...

Jumping Ship then the Ocean Volga

It was now 1943 and eventually my name was called to fill a vacancy on the Ocean Volga, which was...

Sabotage on HMS PENN

When the guns were on the Barham's upper deck they were in the centre of the ship and well above the...

An Aussie 鈥淟oaner鈥� with the British Pacific Fleet

Supermarine Walrus pilot, Pilot Officer Bruce Ada, joined the British Pacific Fleet in February 1945...

BOOM.DEFENCE.

In the 1950s my wife and I used to go dancing at the Broseley Branch of the Royal Naval Association. On one...

A Midshipman's story

I had just left the Royal Naval College Dartmouth as a Midshipman and was waiting to join the Naval...

Schoolboy in Wallasey Part Two

Being wartime we were a defensively equipped Merchant Ship which were fired by the civilian crew but we had...

Arthur Powis

This was at a time when gold braid was scarce, evinced by fact that rings on Officers cuffs only went half...

GEORGE CLARKE-ABLE SEAMAN-Born 26.4.1923 Gorleston-on-Sea,Norfolk -HIS STORY

On the 1st of January, 1940, at the age of 16 years and 8 months, I joined the Merchant Navy as an...

My nightmare teenager years

On the night of June 23rd 1943 the air raid sirens sounded in Hull, I was 16 yrs old and living at...